Microsoft is lining up eight bulletins for the November edition of patch Tuesday (12 November), including three critical fixes, but there's no relief in sight for a zero-day vulnerability in how Office handles .TIFF graphics files.
Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in a graphics library that is used by Microsoft …

We have a choice

This kind of thing would rustle my jimmies...

An alternative work-around

They said: "a workaround to defend against possible attacks that works by disabling TIFF rendering in the affected graphics library." A more effective workaround is to substitute LibreOffice for the MS Office problem, and further, to run LibreOffice on Debian Linux. MS patch delays wouldn't matter nearly so much.

If MS would only promise to keep issuing patches for XP until it was all fixed ... but Hell would most likely freeze over first?